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Eriophyllum, commonly known as the woolly sunflower, is a North American genus of plants in the family Asteraceae. The genus is native to western North America (USA, Canada, northwestern Mexico), with a concentration of narrow endemics in California.[3][4][5]

Eriophyllum
Eriophyllum confertiflorum Voorhis Ecological Reserve California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Madieae
Subtribe:	Baeriinae
Genus:	Eriophyllum Lag.
Type species
Eriophyllum staechadifolium Lag.[1]
Synonyms[2]
Trichophyllum Nutt. Actinolepis DC. Eremonanus I.M.Johnst.

Eriophyllum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Phymatopus californicus.

Description

Eriophyllum is an annual or perennial shrub or subshrub, some species growing to a height of 200 cm (6.7 feet). Leaves present generally alternate and entire to nearly compound, with woolly hairs on some of the species. The inflorescence contains numerous yellow flower heads in flat-topped clusters. The involucre structure is obconic to hemispheric. Phyllaries are either free or more or less fused; the receptacle presents typically flat, but naked. The ray flowers are present in some species but not in others. Fruits are angled in the outer flowers, but are generally club-shaped for the inner flowers; the pappus is somewhat jagged.[6][7]

Selected species

References

Media related to Eriophyllum at Wikimedia Commons

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Eriophyllum, conocido como "girasol lanudo", es un género de plantas herbáceas anuales o perennes nativas del oeste de Norteamérica, con la mayor concentración de especies en California. Comprende 76 especies descritas y de estas, solo 14 aceptadas.[1]

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